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WEEKLY WORD No. 5 18.05.20 Dear Parents/Carers and Students We love hearing how our students are doing, please keep sending in your updates to Miss Halliday by email to [email protected]. Stay home and stay safe. FROM MRS LORD Hi everyone! I hope you are all staying safe and well, and coping with lockdown as best you can. I’m very lucky to have had lots of contact with people through my role, but I am still missing ‘normal’ school life and I can’t wait to be able to see everyone properly again. Although I’ve been busy working, I have been trying to keep myself mentally and physically on form. I’ve been on lots of dog walks (sometimes the cat comes too, which is very amusing), taken part in some charity events and have discovered I’m quite good at virtual quizzes. I hope you are looking after yourselves and your families. Don’t forget that you are all part of the Honley family and we’re only an email or a phone call away if you need us. Keep sending us photos, videos and messages, they cheer all us teachers up! Take care, bye for now Mrs Lord [email protected] FROM MRS BUTLER Hello 11A (A for Awesome) I hope you're all staying home, staying safe and in good health! I've been using the last few weeks of my maternity leave to spend quality time with my boys. We've done lots of crafting, baking (and eating) and walking in this lovely sunshine we've been having - I hope you've all managed to get outside too. I'm so sorry that I never managed to come in to say goodbye. I was so looking forward to spending a few mornings with my school babies before you went on exam leave. How things have changed. I wish you so much love and luck for the future. When I last saw you in Year 10, I was so proud of how hard you were all working on your GCSEs and what fantastic individuals you had all become. Keep on being your wonderful selves. Best wishes, Mrs Butler (and Arthur and Jonah too!) [email protected] FROM MISS HANSOM To all our students. A huge well done for how you have been getting on working from home! You are superstars. Keep going, the work you are submitting on Doddle is showing us how well you are understanding each assignment and what we can work on when we return to school. We know that learning from home can be a challenge so every time you log on to Doddle or open an exercise book, you are showing incredible resilience. We are SO PROUD OF YOU! All of the work you are doing is being checked by your teachers and I can now tell you that, since we launched Doddle, 33000 individual student assignments have been submitted! That is incredible! Year 10 currently have the most students logging in and completing assignments, so if you have not logged in, do it now or get in touch if you need some help. To our parents and carers. Thank you for your support during these difficult times. Nearly 400 of you have created parent accounts on Doddle to check in on the work that is being set and completed. If you would like guidance on how to do this please read the information here https://www.doddlelearn.co.uk/support/parent/ and contact us if you do not have your unique parent key. This is not how I expected to spend my first year at Honley High School, but I’m so grateful to be part of our school community at this time. Stay safe and keep in touch. Miss Hansom [email protected] YEAR 11 FROM MR CLARKE Good morning everyone - I hope that you are all keeping safe and well. Welcome to what would have been your last proper day at Honley before starting your GCSE exams next week. I feel heartbroken for you that your time at school got curtailed in the abrupt way that it did and that you will not get the chance to show us in your exams just how good you really are. It has been my pleasure working with your year group for the last two years and I have loved watching you all grow as people despite all the tears and tantrums. I have spent the last 7 weeks spending time with my dog Sherlock and growing a big bushy beard. Alongside that, I have been working hard with your teachers and the heads of department to try and ensure that you are awarded the grades you deserve this summer. This has been a long and very difficult process - probably the hardest thing I’ve had to do in 20 years of being a teacher. If it was up to me it would be top grades for everyone but sadly that isn’t allowed. GCSE results day is still scheduled for Thursday 20 August and when we know more about social distancing we will let you know how the day will run. We are still committed to hosting a prom for you all although it is looking very unlikely this will happen as planned in June. When we have more details we will be in touch. Try to make the most of the time you have now to prepare for whatever it is you are going to be doing in September. Look after yourselves and if there is anything you need from myself, Mr Meads or your Form Tutors, we are only an email away. Take care Mr Clarke x [email protected] ***AMAZING STUDENTS*** Our students haven’t stopped surprising us with their many, skills, talents, interests and enthusiasm. Keep sending in updates to Miss Halliday by email to [email protected] or via our Facebook page. A very touching drawing by Shauna Edge A huge well done to Noah Fox (Y7) for his (Y8) who was missing her grandad, so she sharing My Sporting Inspiration work. Well drew a picture of him. Just lovely Shauna. done Noah! Please read this wonderful poem written Please congratulate student Lewis by Jack Kirby (Y7). Very well done Jack, Boothroyd (Y8) for easily beating the time we are super impressed. set by Mr Thewlis in the kick up challenge. Man beast Well done Lewis - 32 seconds is a fantastic Be scared of the man beast everyone!! time. He is the swiftest animal and the stealthiest. A huge well done to Holly Holmes (Y11) He has the lower waist of a horse. on her wonderful drawing. Well done His eye, O his eye, is a small blood red Holly! marble in the centre of his forehead. With pointed fangs in his vicious hungry mouth. At the end of each arm, His thumb and three gnarled fingers are as pointy as blades. He holds a double-bladed axe and no one can defeat him! Along his wings, icy crystals form. Oh my gosh! Have a look at this amazing He can shoot deadly life taking barbs cake made by Cassie Thorpe (Y8). If you from his whipped tail, did not want cake before, you certainly He is a silent predator until he will now! Absolutely amazing Cassie, very attacks!!!!!!!!! well done, it looks delicious! Then he can’t be controlled … His eye shoots a laser that will paralyse you – Icy breath from his mouth will freeze you to death – And the barb steals your soul – And you are no more. Calling all chocolate fans- have a look at Well done to Daniel Williams (Y9) for his this lovey cake made by Ayman Yassen fantastic drawing. Well done Daniel. (Y7). Very well done, it looks very tempting! A huge well done to Hannah Maudling (Y7)for her wonderful alphabet art work. A huge well done to Zak Murtagh (Y8) on Well done Hannah-very creative! his Day of the Dead shoe design. Well done Zak! Very creative! Henry Rayner (Y9) has been showing off his culinary skills. Looks delicious Henry! A fantastic technology project produced by Dylan Pilmer (Y7). Very impressive Dylan - well done. Well done to Dixie Ellis (Y9) for her wonderful floral and woodland design. A huge well done to Nell Hirst (Y8) for her Well done to Ella Fullwood (Y8) for her wonderful art work. Very well done. painted flower designs. WORLD OF WORK WEEK There are numerous websites and online resources to research careers and to help you find your future. Here are just some of the sites and information we have shared over the last week as part of our World of Work Week. C&K Careers – career matching tools, quizzes, career information and online chat On the C&K Careers website you will find a variety of career ideas matching tools and quizzes to help you https://ckcareersonline.org.uk/career-match-tools C&K Careers also have a vast range of handy careers leaflets with useful website links to help you to research your dream job and find your future. https://ckcareersonline.org.uk/useful-websites Additionally, C&K Careers are available for Year 11 students if you need any support, help to plan your next steps or, if you're worried about anything get in touch with them and they will chat things through. Open 9am-5pm Mon-Fri and 9am-8pm on Thurs: [email protected] tel: 01484 213865 Future Careers – Wednesday night Q & A If you have any questions about future careers National Careers Service run a regular Wednesday night Q&A from 6pm - 9pm.